{"id":731,"date":"2003-09-14T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2003-09-14T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T15:48:20","slug":"intermittency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Intermittency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a return of the horrendous posting problems that afflicted me in June. they&#8217;re caused by an obscure fault in an <span class=\"caps\">NTL <\/span>cache server, and mean that no http requests over a certain size can get out. This breaks web-based email, posting to blogs, and large chunks of eBay and Amazon. Yippee. The cure is to use a proxy server, as I was told by the very helpful and clued up <span class=\"caps\">NTL <\/span>tech support guy in June. But which proxy server? You will search in vain for a list of them on the company&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo I spent <em>half an hour<\/em> on the phone, being lied to by a robot at 30 second intervals until a woman picked it up. I started to explain my problem.<br \/>\nHad I applied the latest MS security fix, she asked.<br \/>\nYes. I said.<br \/>\nWas I sure?<br \/>\nYes.<br \/>\nWould I look in the control panel and tell her?<br \/>\n<span class=\"caps\">OK.<\/span><br \/>\nThank you, yes you have. I&#8217;ll mark that on the database and put you back in the queue.<br \/>\n[hangs up]<br \/>\n???<br \/>\n<em>Another<\/em> 30 minutes passes.<br \/>\nFinally, I get a list of proxy servers; the last one works.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then the wireless card inthe laptop goes on strike &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a return of the horrendous posting problems that afflicted me in June. they&#8217;re caused by an obscure fault in an <span class=\"caps\">NTL <\/span>cache server, and mean that no http requests over a certain size can get out. This breaks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}